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Remus's P O V

At lunch I walk down to the kitchen of number 12 Grimmauld Place only to be met by everyone.
Molly + Arthur
Ron, Hermione + Harry
Sirius
Tonks
Madeye
Ginny
Fred + George
Kingsley
Okay, make that nearly everyone! where's Erica? Just as I sit down, Erica runs into the room silently and takes some kind of muggle energy drink out of the fridge. She then looks at Sirius who hasn't even noticed her arrival, she looks from him to the table, sighs and walks out looking rather disappointed. I look around the room only to realise that there are one too little chairs, everyone in this room joins us for every meal so is there never a chair for Erica? How has this gone unnoticed? I finish my lunch early and excuse myself from the table. I walk around the house only to find Erica curled up in the drawing room with a copy of paper towns in her hands. I stand in the doorway examining her for a while, she looks different, I mean I havnt really spoken to her since the others came but still, her skin is paler and she has lost some weight but if my theory is correct and she hasn't had a proper meal since everyone got here a few weeks ago then that's not particularly surprising. Her eyes are dull and her hair is longer and slightly darker. She doesn't look well at all. Suddenly Sirius and Harry push past me slightly as they enter the room with Erica in and I watch as a scene unfolds in front of me. As Sirius enters the room and he looks straight a Erica, her eyes light up slightly with hope and exitement. Her face falls dramatically as the only words that leave her fathers mouth are,

Leave, Harry and I have things to discuss.

She nods silently and half runs past her father and Harry with her head down but I'm sure that as she passes me, I see tears streaming down her face making my heart wrench.

The door is shut in my face and I decide to leave Erica alone for a bit, so I go down to ask some people in the house, her house, their opinions on her.

Ron-  the creepy mini Sirius?
Molly- who dear?
Tonks- she's a sweetheart!
Madeye- nice girl, quiet, keeps to herself.
Fred- who!?
George-who!?

After about half an hour, Sirius and Harry exit the drawing room and I take this as my chance to ask those two their oppinions on Erica.
I must say I was rather disappointed in Padfoots reply,

Sirius- shes not exactly a dream come true. She could be braver, more exiting, if she were like Harry I would be so proud but I don't really have any strong oppinions on the girl, whydya ask Mooney?

And then there was Harry,

Harry- what the girl Sirius is always pushing around and yelling at, why would I speak to her, I don't even know who she is!?

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